FOOTNOTES:
[25] Disraeli’s “Sybil” gives a scathing portraiture of the great Whig families in his sketch of the career of the Earls of Marney.
[26] Quoted from Thackeray’s “Four Georges.”
[27] Which made illegal any marriage contracted by a prince of the blood without the consent of King and Parliament.
[28] I am informed by a friend, Mr. Denman, a grandson of Caroline’s Counsel, that the words were not used in the speech, which was reported wrongly in the Annual Register.